This is also ripe for a “so far” meme given the enormous number of omissions and redactions.

Are there really less than 38,000 visible stars?

I’ve been out in the open ocean hundreds of miles from land, lights out, looking at the whole of the milky way on a clear night. Just from my one hemisphere view it seemed like 10’s of thousands…

Is that the number of stars over the course of a year or at any given time